Active Incident
Internet outage in Venezuela
Venezuela · May 18, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Venezuela. 2 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
78%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
78% of 2 network tests from Venezuela failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 75+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 18, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (3)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis3 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sucre"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.22
May 18, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.76
May 18, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.79
May 18, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Venezuela [VE-2026-0209]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-0209